The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues
(Part of the Routledge Studies in Linguistics Series)
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This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is, 'How were the poor, often armed only with low levels of education and literacy, able to meet the challenge of writing letters vital to their interests, even...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0367000261
ISBN13:9780367000264
Release Date:July 2020
Publisher:Routledge
Length:196 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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